PROGRAMS OF MUSIC

For Military band

Part 1

Date:Friday March 1st 1811

Band:The Royal Artillery band

Title Composer/Arranger Remarks
A New march Mr Mckenzie  
Military Concerto Signor Dussek  
Overture Introducing 'La Theodora' Mr Linley  
A Sett(sic) of waltzes Mr McKenzie  
Concerto for Flute Genrl Reid  
Overture Mr Arne  
Concerto for Violin Mr Festering Mr Mori Soloist
Symphony by the Lord Kelly  
Gavott Capt Quist  

Date:November 3rd 1827

Band:Royal Artillery band

Title Composer/Arranger Remarks
Overture 'Le Nozze di Figaro Mozart  
First Symphony Romberg  
Solo and Chorus 'Come if you Dare' Purcell  
Solo Kent Bugle Original Air Logier Mr Stevenson
Galopp Eisenhardt  
Overture 'Anacreon' Cherubini  
Aria 'Ah dov'è il cimento Rossini Mr Sinclair
Two Sonatas for violin and bass Corelli Mr McKenzie(the Bandmaster),Mr S Collins, and Colonel Drummond
Glee 'Here [in cool grot' Mornington    
Final from Clock Symphony Hadyn    
Trio for Voices Stevenson Mr Sinclair,Mr McKenzie,Mr Reeves  
Quadrille Mckenzie    

Date:December 5th 1834

Band: The Royal Artillery band

Title Composer/Arranger Remarks
Overture Clementi  
Quintette Mr McKenzie(bandmaster) Capt Wright,Dr Kenning,W Collins Lietenant Thorndike  
Symphony Hadyn  
Overture Jessonda Spohr  
Glee 'Breeth Soft Ye Winds' Webbe Master Reeves,Corpl Smith,Serjt Wilkinson,John Reeves
Theme and Variations for Eb Clarinet Berr Serjt Collins
Woolwich Warren Quadrilles McKenzie  
Chorus Hallelula Handel

Date: Friday December 6th 1839

Band:The Royal Artillery band

Title Composer/Arranger Remarks
Symphony No 4 Haydn  
Glee "Let me Careless' Linley  
Quintett for Violins,Tenors and Violincello Mozart  
Bass Song Why do the Nations Handel  
Symphony No4 Beethoven  
Cello Fantasie Lindley Mr Lindley
Glee Up Quit the Bower Bishop  
Overture Fanscon Himmel  
     
Note: This concert may have been mixed concert of both band and orchestra    

Date:Tuesday December 15th,1846

Band: The Royal Artillery band

Title Composer/Arranger Remarks
Sinfonia Alla Turca Romberg 1st Movement
Chors-The Tempest"Around and Around We Pace" Purcell  
Aria-A te reido Mercadanye Miss Dolby
Waltz Emilie Collins(bandmaster)  
Cavatiuna from Maritana Wallace Mr Wilkinson
Song Oh Araby-Oberon Weber Miss Dolby
Solo Viol;in Sixth Air De Beritot Mr Wilkonson
Overture Collins  
  Intermission  
Overture William Tell Rossini  
Scena All is Lost from Sonnambula Bellini  
Solo Cornet à Piston The bannks of Allan water B. Lee Mr James Lawson
Ballad Primroses deck the bank's green side Linley Miss Dolby
Solo FluteOriginal Air Richardson Mr Bellingham
Trio Turn on,Old time from Maritana Wallace Miss Dolby,Messrs Wilkonson and Browning
Quadrille Brtish Navy Jullien  
Polka Comic American Jullien  
  GOD SAVE THE QUEEN  

Date:Tuesday February 17th 1849

Band:The Royal Artillery band

Title Composer/Arranger Remarks
Overture Zampa Herold  
Solo and Chorus -Come if you dare Purcell  
Waltz -Margarita D'Albert  
Solo Clarionet,11th Air Varie Berr  
Gallop,di Bravura Schulhoff  
Overture Anacreon Cherubini  
Madrigal Soldiers brave and Gallant be Gastoldi  
Quadrille Flic Flac  
Cavatina In questo semplice Donnizetti Madame Alboni
Polka Chinese Junk D'Albert  

Date:June ? 1850

Band:The Royal Artillery band

Title Composer/Arranger Remarks
March The Prince Consort W. Collins  
Overture Lucia di Lammermoor Donizetti  
Aria for Cornet à Piston Ah te Riedo Mecandante  
Selection Dinorah Meyerbeer  
Polka Emily Capt Tylden arranged Collins  
Zampa Herold  
Polka Comic American Jullien  
Selection Ernani Verdi  

Date:Wednesday February 4th 1852

Band:The Royal Artillery band

Title Composer/Arranger Remarks
Turkish march from Ruins of Athens Beethoven  
Sinfonia No.3 Mozart  
Overture Preciosa Weber  
Song For Tenor When Twighlight Falls Dolores  
Glee Welcome Friends of harmony Sir John Stevenson  
Overture Quo fas et Gloria ducunt Collins  
Quadrille Jardin Turc Mons Jullien  

Date:Spring 1855

Band:The Royal Artillery band

Title Composer/Arranger Remarks
Camp Overture - Jubilee Lindpainter  
Grand Selction Robert le Diable Meyerbeer  
Walzer -Stars of the West Montague  
Scena ed Aria Tovotore Verdi  
Galop The Light Cavalry Smyth  
Grand Selection-Huguenots Meyerbeer  
Overture Zampa Herold  
Grand Selection-Il Barbiere di Deviglia Rossini  
Polka-Schone Minka Smythe  
Meange-Lieder ohne Mendelssohn Saxophone soloist not given
Quadriille Friedrich Wilheml Bilse  

Date: Wednesday 17th December 1856

Band:The Royal Artillery band

Title Composer/Arranger Remarks
Adagio and Allegro con Brio Sinfonia no 2 Beethoven  
Adagio and Allegro Maestoso The Scottish Symphony Mendelssohn  
Adagio and Allegro con Brio Sinfonia no.1 Beethoven  
Rondo-La Morale from Don Pasquale Donizetti Madame Ernestine Smythe Soprano(She was the wife of the bandmaster   and a native of Montreal)
Overture-Il Barbiere di Seviglia Rossini  
Glee and Chorus The Winds Whistle Cold Sir H Bishop
Fantasia national-The Shamrock Smythe  
Waltz-Piccolomini Wagner  

 

Date: Wednesday 23rd December 1863

Band:The Royal Artillery band

Title Composer/Arranger Remarks
Overture Domino Noir Auber  
  A long list of Vocal solos  
Grand Selection-Faust Gounod  
Overture-William Tell Rossini  
Solo for Cornet-Air and Variations- Levy  
Quadrille on National Airs-The lakes of Killarney Smythe solos for cornet,clarionet,bassoon and piccolo

Date:  15th July 1881

Band:The Royal Artillery band

Title Composer/Arranger Remarks
March-Rienzi Wagner  
Overture-Oberon Weber  
Reminiscencesof Verdi arr Smythe  
Ungarische Tanze Brahms  
Waltz-Chantilly Walteufel  
Reminscences of Mozart arr Mansfield  
Dance Bohemian-Les Fauvettes Bosquet  
Selection-The Pirates of Penzance Sullivan This was arranged by Sir Arthur Sullivan's father
Russian dance Glinka  
Caprice Militaire Herzeele  
Ave Maria Shubert  
Galop-Victoria M de Lara Bright  
Part Song Downs so Free Pearsall Mansfield
Part Song Night Lovely Night Berger  
  GOD SAVE THE QUEEN  

Date:   Wednesday 12th March July 1884

Band:The Royal Artillery band

Title Composer/Arranger Remarks
March from First Suite Lachner  
Symphony #4 Beethoven  
Overture-Mein Heim Dvorak First performance of a transcription for Band by the Composer
Riodon De Darfanus De Rameau Gevert  
Slavische Tanze No4 Dvorak Transcribed by Dvorak
Al Fresco Zavertal String Orchestra
Overture-Masaniello Auber  
  GOD SAVE THE QUEEN